Communications and Technology Policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 407-425
Author(s):  
Heidi Tworek
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Technology Policy ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Communication Policy ◽  
Communications Systems ◽  
Antitrust Regulation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Federal involvement in communications came early with the development of a national postal system. Yet that involvement was intertwined with and influenced by international developments from the start. This chapter surveys the federal government’s long involvement in communication policy including telegraphy, radio, and the internet. While surveying this involvement, this chapter discusses such issues as antitrust regulation; federal development of communications systems; free speech and restrictive policies; overlapping federal agencies involved in communications; various attempts by the federal government to promote technological development; and the relationship of federal-private technological development.

On the Very Idea of Civilisation

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-321
Author(s):  
Luke O’Sullivan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
Alternative Definition ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Western Imperialism ◽  
Clash Of Civilisations ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Contemporary Liberalism ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The concept of civilisation is a controversial one because it is unavoidably normative in its implications. Its historical associations with the effort of Western imperialism to impose substantive conditions of life have made it difficult for contemporary liberalism to find a definition of “civilization” that can be reconciled with progressive discourse that seeks to avoid exclusions of various kinds. But because we lack a way of identifying what is peculiar to the relationship of civilisation that avoids the problem of domination, it has tended to be conflated with other ideas. Taking Samuel Huntington's idea of a “Clash of Civilisations” as a starting point, this article argues that we suffer from a widespread confusion of civilisation with “culture,” and that we also confuse it with other ideas including modernity and technological development. Drawing on Thomas Hobbes, the essay proposes an alternative definition of civilisation as the existence of limits on how we may treat others.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas A. Powe
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
State Capture ◽  
Roe V Wade ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter concludes that the book has discussed Texas's influence on all the doctrinal areas of modern constitutional law, showing that constitutional cases litigated by and in the state capture the major themes of the relation of law and politics in the entire country. In addition to representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional law, Texas cases revolve around the major issues of the nation, from race to wealth and poverty to civil liberties and the relationship of the states and the federal government to war. This conclusion summarizes some of those important cases, including City of Boerne v. Flores, an exercise in judicial review striking down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act as it applied to states; Texas v. Johnson (flag burning); Reagan v. Farmers' Loan and Trust (railroad rates); Lawrence v. Texas (homosexual sodomy); and Roe v. Wade and Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt (abortion).

scholarly journals Knowledge on intellectual property as an advantage for scientific research

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-116
Author(s):  
Jennifer Zermeño-Guerrero ◽  
Marisela Garza-Ruiz ◽  
María Cristina Rodríguez-Padilla
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Industrial Property ◽  
Jel Codes ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Protection Strategies ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The protection of intellectual property represents a key factor for the establishment of the particular rights of the scientific sector, and the clear record of the technological development of a country. The protection strategies of industrial property and copyright are relevant to maintain control of knowledge management, confidentiality during its development and the security of exclusivity in research activities. The relationship between colleagues to present a paper should be trustworthy, however plagiarism is one of the main concerns of researchers when they have to disclose their work where experts in the field are generally present. The objective of this research was to identify the reasons why researchers do not usually protect their scientific works, and through the application of a survey it is described that it is due to the lack of knowledge in the area of protection of intellectual property. It is concluded that it is important to propose the generation of knowledge to researchers about the advantages of implementing a process to protect their works for a relationship of trust with colleagues and students. Keywords: copyright, scientific work, intellectual property, research. JEL Codes: K11 Received: 30/07/2020.  Accepted: 20/02/2021.  Published: 01/06/2021.

scholarly journals Günther Anders in Silicon Valley: Artificial intelligence and moral atrophy

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 153 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elke Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Functional Data ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Game Changer

Artificial Intelligence as a buzzword and a technological development is presently cast as the ultimate ‘game changer’ for economy and society; a technology of which we cannot be the master, but which nonetheless will have a pervasive influence on human life. The fast pace with which the multi-billion dollar AI industry advances toward the creation of human-level intelligence is accompanied by an increasingly exaggerated chorus of the ‘incredible miracle’, or the ‘incredible horror’, intelligent machines will constitute for humanity, as the human is gradually replaced by a technologically superior proxy, destined to be configured as a functional (data) component at best, a relic at worst. More than half a century ago, Günther Anders sketched out this path toward technological obsolescence, and his work on ‘Promethean shame’ and ‘Promethean discrepancy’ provides an invaluable means with which to recognise and understand the relationship of the modern human to his/her technological products. In this article, I draw on Anders’s writings to unpack and unsettle contemporary narratives of our relation to AI, with a view toward refocusing attention on the responsibilities we bear in producing such immersive technologies. With Anders, I suggest that we must exercise and develop moral imagination so that the human capacity for moral responsibility does not atrophy in our technologically mediated future.

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